To: Renfro, Richard : Oxford UniversityDick, I know you won't get this until after we've returned... but I had to express how incredible I feel. We've finally done it... made contact... and Muldoon and I have been selected to be involved in the initial work... Anatoly's one condition is that I tell no one aboard the ship... The creatures are remarkable... they're so helpless... I feel somehow compelled to protect them... It's a miraculous discovery...

re: The children

The specimens are dying. And we're powerless to help... they're highly toxic. Muldoon wouldn't leave them, and now he's dead. But this morning I had... a revelation... I started work on specifications for a radical series of cybernetic enhancements... If successful, I could make a body practically indestructible... yet the mind would remain human, nurturing... There's not a lot of time...

re: Wondrous toy

I'm changing. My head is full of wonderful ideas and experiments... they have so many miracles to share... so much knowledge to give... They told me how to make this implant... they said it will make a better me of me... I wish I had more time so I could give it to them...

re: Nurse Bloome

I've chosen Nurse Bloome as the new mother to our children. She is sweet and kind, healthy and a perfect match. She has a child of her own back on Earth. She knows what it is to care for the young. Ave Maria. If she only knew what the future held... she'd share the joys of the Many...